Eco-Certification as an incentive to conserve biodiversity in rubber smallholder agroforestry systems: A preliminary study
Summary: Rubber agroforests managed by smallholders, a low intensity cultivation system with a forest like structure, cover more than 1 million ha in Indonesia and contribute […]
- Date of Publication: 2003
- Author(s): A. Gouyon
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Rewarding the upland poor for environmental services: A review of initiatives from developed countries
Summary: Developed countries have already established a number of mechanisms to implement environmental transfers either within their own country, or towards other countries, including developing nations. […]
- Date of Publication: 2003
- Author(s): A. Gouyon
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
From Goodwill to Payments for Environmental Services: A Survey of Financing Options for Sustainable Natural Resource Management in Developing Countries
The 2003 WWF-Danida survey on financing options for sustainable natural resource management is now available as a book, as a CD and as a PDF file. […]
- Date of Publication: 2003
- Author(s): P. Gutman (ed.)
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
Environmental service ‘payments’: Experiences, constraints and potential in the Philippines
Summary: This paper reviews the form of incentives or rewards that have been provided to upland communities in a number of sites under different management leadership […]
- Date of Publication: 2003
- Author(s): H. Arocena-Francisco
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Development and the environment in Asia
This paper examines the complex, non-linear relationships between economic growth and environmental degradation that are apparent in the variety of experiences in the recent history of […]
- Date of Publication: 2003
- Author(s): I. Coxhead
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
The Open Economy And The Environment: Development, Trade and Resources in Asia
Table of Contents: 1. Development – Environment Interactions 2. Analytical Approaches to the Trade -Environment Relationship 3. Growth and the Environment in Developing Asian Economies 4. […]
- Date of Publication: 2003
- Author(s): I. Coxhead; S. Jayasuriya
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Development assistance to upland communities in the Philippines
Summary: Over the last two decades, there has been a growing concern about the alarming rate of Philippines forest degradation and upland poverty. The government have […]
- Date of Publication: 2003
- Author(s): C. Jensen
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Devolution of environmental and natural resource management in the Philippines: analytical and policy issues
This paper assesses the impacts of devolving environmental and natural resource (ENR) management. The author examines factors that may constrain or facilitate capturing gains and developing […]
- Date of Publication: 2003
- Author(s): R. Manasan
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management, Policy
El impacto social del esquema de pago de servicios ambientales en Costa Rica: Estudio de campo cuantitativo y analisis de la Cuenca Del Rio Virilla
Abstract: Cuando Costa Rica inicio su programa de Pago de Servicios Ambientales en 1996, fue ampliamente reconocido por liderar los esfuerzos globales para introducir sistemas de […]
- Date of Publication: 2003
- Author(s): M. Miranda; I.T. Porras; M.L. Moreno
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
The social impacts of the Payments for Environmental Services (PES) Scheme in Costa Rica: A quantitative field survey and analysis of the Virilla watershed
Abstract: In 1996 Costa Rica implemented an innovative programme of Payments for Environmental Services (PES). Through this programme, forest and plantation owners are financially rewarded and […]
- Date of Publication: 2003
- Author(s): M. Miranda; I.T. Porras; M.L. Moreno
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
